Kathy Beekman

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Kathy Beekman has been an artist since the age of four. She has been painting predominantly in pastel since the year 2000 after a trip to Mexico. She is an adult art instructor at the Center for the Arts-Evergreen and the Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado where she teaches a number of workshops and specialized pastel painting classes. She is also an Art Career Coach. A graduate of Siena Heights University, Michigan, Kathy returned to college to study archaeology in Indiana. This in turn found her marrying an archaeologist and working in the field in Mexico nearly every year. Now an active Colorado artist, Kathy is President of the Evergreen Artists Association and a member of the Pastel Society and the Art Student’s League of Denver. She is also the illustrator for the Llano Grande and Navajas archaeological projects in Jalisco, Mexico.